17 January 2012
Deploying leading edge technology, Lexis Advance
empowers legal professionals with a significantly more
intelligent legal research solution
includes content enriched using SRA's industry-leading
NetOwl® text and entity analytics technology, delivering a
more sophisticated semantic search capability to enable
legal professionals to conduct better, faster and more
relevant research.
As one key part of the Lexis Advance application, NetOwl's
entity and relationship extraction capabilities
semantically enrich the vast amounts of text-based content
offered to legal professional customers. Combining the
semantic information extracted from text by NetOwl with
LexisNexis identity resolution technology significantly
improves accuracy when surfacing relevant content for
customers researching specific entities such as attorneys
and law firms. NetOwl's content processing provides more
sophisticated discovery capabilities and advanced answer
filtering, enhancing the ability for users to quickly
locate the most relevant documents and efficiently analyze
legal information.
NetOwl seamlessly integrates with the unique
High-Performance Computer Cluster technology from
LexisNexis, which is at the center of the Lexis Advance
platform, analyzing massive amounts of text in minimal
time.
"LexisNexis is dedicated to helping legal
professionals work more efficiently and intelligently to
find the trusted information they need to do their jobs,"
said Jim Wanke, vice president of Content Shared Services
at LexisNexis Legal & Professional. "Integrating
NetOwl-enriched content into the newest version of Lexis
Advance is an important component in achieving that."
"We are extremely excited to see NetOwl leveraged with
LexisNexis content in the latest version of Lexis Advance,
providing users with new and more powerful ways to perform
legal research," said Dr. Chinatsu Aone, vice
president, Text and Entity Analytics at SRA. "The
collaboration provides legal professionals and others with
a unique solution that sets the bar for advanced
unstructured data analysis."
NetOwl provides industry-leading text and entity analytics
products that address big data challenges in a highly
scalable fashion. It offers automatic identification and
extraction of semantic concepts from any text data source
in multiple languages, as well as intelligent geotagging of
unstructured data. NetOwl offers the largest semantic
ontology available commercially, including not only a
variety of entities but also a wide range of relationship
and event concepts in many domains.
About LexisNexis Legal & Professional
) is a leading global provider of content and technology
solutions that enable professionals in legal, corporate,
tax, government, academic and non-profit organizations to
make informed decisions and achieve better business
outcomes. As a digital pioneer, the company was the
first to bring legal and business information online with
its Lexis® and Nexis® services. Today, LexisNexis Legal &
Professional harnesses leading-edge technology and
world-class content, to help professionals work in faster,
easier and more effective ways. Through close collaboration
with its customers, the company ensures organizations can
leverage its solutions to reduce risk, improve
productivity, increase profitability and grow their
business. Part of Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis Legal &
Professional serves customers in more than 100 countries
with 10,000 employees worldwide.
About SRA International, Inc.
) is dedicated to solving complex problems of global
significance for clients in national security, civil
government, global health, and the commercial sector. SRA
employs approximately 7,000 employees serving clients from
its headquarters in Fairfax, Va., and offices around the
world. NetOwl () is a family of industry-leading text and
entity analytics products. NetOwl is offered by SRA and is
widely used by both government and the private sector.
NetOwl is a registered trademark owned by SRA
International, Inc.